Before the reader begins the substance of the following
article, think about the remarkable timeliness of various Arab
riots, Arafat's 'Green Lights', collusion between Israeli
leaders, Arafat and U.S. Arabists to insure pressure on Israel to
capitulate. Recall that just before the first Intifada both Rabin
and Peres left the country and both refused to return as the
riots spread and grew in strength.

The recently coordinated riots, just as Barak made the
unpopular 'gesture' or 'down payment' of giving away Abu Dis,
Eizariya and Suwahara to Arafat carried the same smell. The
collusion to create pressure on Israel's weak Knesset and a
confused population by initiating riots is well understood and
practiced by Israel's Left, in linkage with foreign interests who
use their intelligence apparatus to foment political change.

Regrettably, Israel's opposition never insisted on a Court of
Inquiry to probe Israel's collusion by her Leftist leadership to
force political and territorial change which the Israeli public
did not want.

The NEW YORK TIMES of May 17, following its
usual pro-Arab, anti-Israel practice congratulates Ehud Barak for
his perfidy and his vision for not responding to Arafat's 'Green
Light' to riot. The TIMES author, Deborah Sontag, recasts Barak's
collusion and betrayal as an 'Act of Vision'. Arab leaders
congratulated Barak for his lack of retaliation to the
Palestinian Police shooting with live ammunition at Israeli
soldiers.

FRAUD ON AN IMMENSE LEVEL

One has to admire the sheer, malevolent trickery of the Barak
giveaway of Abu Dis, Eizariya and Suwahara - soon to be followed
by Anata, A-Ram and other Arab villages encircling Jerusalem. The
idea of giving Abu Dis to Arafat was floated earlier by Yossi
Beilin and Abu Mazen as the capital of the neo-Palestinian state.
What wasn't mentioned was that Abu Dis is merely an extension of
the Mount of Olives and separated only by a name and, thereby, is
an organic part of Jerusalem.

Look at your maps and see! Abu Dis is an extension of the
Mount of Olives. Only look out from the roofs bordering Har Bayit
(the Temple Mount) and what do you see? Look across the Silwan
Valley and up the hill to the Mount of Olives. There you see the
road that King Hussein built across Jewish graves and over into
Abu Dis and Eizariya. They're all one contiguous land connection
through the Mt. of Olives directly into the Old City of
Jerusalem. Beilin, Peres and now Barak knew they were giving the
eastern section of Jerusalem to the Palestinians, along with Abu
Dis as the 'cover'.

But, Peres, Beilin, Barak and Arafat could not state outright
that the Holy Mount of Olives and eastern Jerusalem was to be
gifted to Arafat as the capital of his soon-to-be-announced new
state of Palestine. While such Jews as Barak, Beilin and Peres
who are religiously nonobservant, have little regard for such
things as Jewish Holy Sites and the vast ancient Jewish
graveyards on the Mount of Olives, the Arabs know its true value.

Abu Dis, Eizariya and Suwahara at first seem to be some
ordinary Arab villages of little importance. But, if this Barak
give away is now to take place, this entire connected area of the
Mount of Olives, all the way down to the Silwan Valley would
become the capital of the neo-state of Palestine. The Mount of
Olives faces Israel's Old City and the Temple Mount and then so
would be their capital. It would be only a matter of time before
the Palestinians would succeed with their spurious claim to most
of east Jerusalem and even 'west' Jerusalem.

The Arabs consider that area so important that, when they came
into control of Jerusalem after Salahadin drove the Christian
Crusaders out of Jerusalem, they built a Moslem graveyard outside
of the Eastern Wall of the Old City in front of the Golden Gate
which they sealed up. They walled up this particular Gate to the
City in order to keep the Jewish Moshiach (Messiah) from entering
Jerusalem - as legend said he would. Because the Jewish Messiah
supposedly cannot walk on unholy ground or through a Muslim
cemetery, they also buried several Muslim mujhadin (Islamic holy
warriors) in front of that Gate - or so goes their lore.

Yes, the Muslims think a great deal about the Mount of Olives
and making it their capital would fit their ideas of status by
co-opting what is Holy and precious to the Jews. Of course, the
Jewish graves would have to be moved out. But that would not
trouble Yassir Arafat - just as it did not trouble King Hussein
who controlled the Old City for 19 years - nor would it bother
any Muslim ruler of today. While Hussein was in control, he drove
out the Jews; he destroyed 58 Jewish synagogues; he desecrated
the ancient Jewish graves on the Mount of Olives by building a
road through them; he used their ancient memorial stones in the
soldiers' latrines. Respecting Jewish graves would not stop
Arafat or the Palestinians from building 'their' capital.

By giving the Arabs Abu Dis, Eizariya, Suhawara, Anata and the
other villages surrounding Jerusalem, the entire Northern and
East sections of Jerusalem would be almost completely sealed off
from the rest of Israel if it became necessary to fight a
defensive war. The sections called Givat Zev, Neveh Ya'acov,
Pisgat Ze'ev, Ma'aleh Adumim, Ramat Eshkol, French Hill would be
cut off except for narrow access routes easily cut off. As a
General, Barak understands this and so he is doubly guilty of
exposing Israeli citizens to assault.

Making access routes dangerous for Jews to travel goes back to
the Labor/Left plans of the early 1980s which intended to raise
the 'misery index' of Jews to such a degree that they would be
forced to abandon their homes. This, of course, is happening now.

When land was bought to build homes on Har Zeytim (the Mount
of Olives) next to the Beit Orot Yeshiva, the Left and the Arabs
went wild. These Jewish homes would block the Arabs' Plan to have
contiguous access to the Temple Mount and their ultimate grasp
for ALL of Jerusalem as the capital of the new state of
Palestine. Arafat has loudly proclaimed this is his intention
since the day that Oslo was signed in September 1993. Note that
Har Zeytim is the extended tip of the block of territory
containing Abu Dis, Eizariya and Suwahara. So, underneath the
misleading titles of a series of seemingly unimportant Arab
villages lays the entire Mount of Olives as the capital of the
neo-state of Palestine.

Perhaps that also puts in perspective the deal which the Pope
cut with Arafat to have unimpeded access to their Churches and
Shrines - which the Christians have now as do the Jews and
Muslims for the first time under Jewish rule. This arrangement
called for the Church to support Arafat's false claims to
Jerusalem. It would appear that the Pope and Arafat knew well in
advance that what Barak was giving away was the entire Mount of
Olives so important to the Christians. The Christian world
regards the Mount of Olives as a Holy Place. After all, they have
Gethsemane, Church of St. Mary Magdalen, Chapel of the Ascension
and more on the Mount of Olives. Was this then the underlying
motivation for the Pope's strenuous pilgrimage to the Holy Land?
Was he merely securing his claim on Christian properties in
collusion with the Leftist Government of Israel and Yassir
Arafat? It would appear so.

Shimon Peres, one of the early architects of the Plan to
evacuate YESHA and the Golan Heights through the secretly evolved
Oslo Plan, once again confirmed his method for trickery. Peres is
quoted as saying that "Had PM Ehud Barak kept the proposal
under wraps, which includes the hand over of Eizariya and
Suhawara (the other two villages on the outskirts of Jerusalem)
then it could have been an option." Barak later proclaimed
the 'gesture' or 'down payment' of Abu Dis, Eizariya and Suwahara
without any referendum and, thereby, opened the gates to
Jerusalem. It appears that this is part of a plan to give away
Israel in small increments (gestures) therefore avoiding a
meaningful Citizens' Referendum.

In other words, like Rabin-Peres-Beilin's Olso Plan - done in
secret - which planned the evacuation of YESHA (Yehuda, Shomron
and Gaza), so too Peres wanted the Abu Dis/Mount of Olives
giveaway to be conducted in secret before the Jews of Israel
could stop it. This has now been done by Barak with the urging of
President Clinton.

The betrayal of a nation can be called by many names but, it
remains a betrayal. The secret of the Mount of Olives as the
planned capital of the neo-state of Palestine can no longer be
covered over with the trivial name of Abu Dis. The Knesset may no
longer be allowed to sit in stupefied silence as if they didn't
know. They now know and to their everlasting shame, they voted
for it. As for those who crafted this shameless theft of our
precious Jewish heritage, they should be brought to trial for
treason against the State of Israel.

It is now Tuesday, May 16. Yesterday, the Arabs rioted - on
command - across a broad front in Israel. The automatic weapons
supplied by the Israeli government to Arafat's terrorist
policemen were once again turned on Israeli soldiers.

Barak's government apologists were quick to make excuses and
play down Arafat's 'Green Lights' to riot. Barak clearly belongs
to anyone who will pay the price of keeping him in office. The
Shas Sephardic and ultra-religious political Party has also been
purchased as they predictably absented themselves from the vote
in the Knesset on the gifting of Abu Dis, Eizariya and Suwahara
to Arafat with access to Jerusalem going to the Arabs.

How mortified the Sephardim must be to see Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,
sell his vote for tainted money and thereby to jeopardize Jewish
sovereignty of Jerusalem.

The much praised and decorated former General Ehud Barak,
called 'Mr. Security' has become a role model for betrayal and
cowardice. Like Rabin in his early days, Barak has left his
troops (the people of Israel) in the line of fire. Perhaps the
nation may wake up in time and throw him out of office but,
somehow I doubt that it will happen in time to spare Israel a
bloodbath.

In closing, let us always remember Barak and Clinton who, with
Yassir Arafat, fathered the abortive neo-state of Palestine which
in its maturity will rise up like Frankenstein monster to kill
all around it - in Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

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Emanuel A. Winston is a Middle East analyst and
commentator as well as a research associate of the Freeman Center
For Strategic Studies.